I have got SOME photos from new acquisitions to show you this weekend.

The shape of Hardy Amies’s 1979 gown is an effective one, shaped here and there but with fullness in the sleeve, perfect for the Queen’s visit to Bahrain that year. A tangerine dream with gold repeat #RCT #FashionHistory 🗃️🪡

I just spoke to Mitch for about 20 minutes and he said my solution to this textual problem in Fulgentius is entirely convincing. "Palmary" was the word he used, we also talked about tax cuts and the Maine primary

Finally got started with my electric eel wheel and while I'm not a full convert (I like my Ashford traditional more), it does seem like a useful little machine.

This is a robe à l’anglaise, with a fitted back rather than the flowing earlier styles. A shift in fashion, but still using the same precious materials.

I stopped posting in this thread is that I found out that Susan Greene was attending the auction to buy items to donate to GCVM and I didn't want to accidentally drive traffic to anything she was bidding on. We didn't communicate about it in advance but we've ended up with these ...

I'd love to read your TTRPG newsletter. unfortunately you've chosen to host it on substack, the Nazi website, so I won't be doing that. sounds so interesting though. wish I could!

Hannah Chatterton Hyde's 1857 wedding dress was made with diagonal pleats across the bodice and with bright blue silk button-ornaments sewn over the hook-and-eye closure. You can also make out the meticulous hand-stitching along the upper edge of the waistband. #WeddingWednesday 🗃️🪡

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Just got an excellent new toy: a handheld digital microscope that connects to my phone and takes pictures. Real game changer for fiber and weave analysis!

England is divided into two newspaper regions. They are the Bicester Times, the Worcester Times.

I stopped by the Weston yesterday to see the Clarendon muses- they’ve been on top the building for three hundred years, came down two years ago for restoration, and go back up in September! So if you’re looking for a free exhibit in an air conditioned building, go check it out, they’re really neat

In my latest newsletter, I'm asking for advice from anyone with experience writing under a pen name! buttondown.com/cassidyperco...

O'Connell, New Talk, July 8! Fashion as Evidence: Objects, Empire, and the Making of Canadian Culture. Oria, 220 King W, 7pm, July 8. Toronto youtube.com/shorts/hvxPw... #Fashionhistory #CanadianCulture #MaterialCulture #DressHistory #CanadianHistory

Evening dress, Herbert Luey, USA, 1912 No reservations, this is just beautiful. I love the colour, and the draping is really complex and gives the dress a wonderful flow. It took me a while to figure out what was going on with the fabric tbh! #fashionsky #dresshistory #fashionhistory #TheMet

The next time you get annoyed with people arguing about antiquity, I highly recommend taking a cathartic look at the unhinged comments under any history post about the Wars of the Roses. I salute our comrades doing medieval public history, because those reply guys are... opinionated, shall we say.

In 1842, South Avon bride Julia Bassman wore an extraordinary corset for her wedding. Made of two thin layers of fabric, it was decorated with padded quilting around the bust and hip gores and in discrete foliate motifs around the waist. 🗃️🪡 hub.catalogit.app/genesee-coun... #WeddingWednesday

It was inevitable, wasn't it🙄 Of course the Telegraph would run with something like this👇 So let's remove some of the rose-tinted spectacles and also look at some of that data comparing 1976 with modern heat waves Because the 1976 nostalgia porn is wearing a bit thin at this stage 🧵1/23

Eleanor of Provence, Queen of England, died on this day in 1291 at the convent of Amesbury thefreelancehistorywriter.com/2022/01/08/e...

I have a number of vintage patterns that I've been meaning to digitize and grade, but for various reasons haven't. Finally giving it a try!

Abigail Adams was extraordinary by any measure, but like many of that founding generation she gets calcified as maybe the lady who wanted ladies to be remembered. She was also a sharp financial manager, speculating in bonds during the revoltution and in land and otherwise after.

Ugh, I just came across my right-angle patterning ruler and put it somewhere convenient so I could find it again. And where was that convenient place? Who knows.

Tomb monument for Alfonsina de' Medici Orsini, Basilica of Santa Maria del Popolo. This quietly arresting monument was erected by her daughter, Clarice. Read about the subtle #architecture of grief: ideasroadshow.substack.com/p/overlooked... #mosaicmonday 🗃️ #arthistory #skystorians

Catching up on some youtube yesterday when I ran across this excellent piece by @fourredshoes.bsky.social! 🗃️🪡 www.youtube.com/watch?v=eiXr...

Call for papers for an online conference on medievalism, 9-10 October: medievalisms.org/conferences/ #medievalsky

Do you remember our exhibition of waistcoats? There were some pretty fancy examples. We have an accompanying book about waistcoats for sale in our gift shop. #Bexhill #Clothing #Waistcoats

A reminder on Father's Day that the history of the American Revolution is about more than Founding Fathers. IOW Dad Books can be about moms, daughters, sisters, aunts, wives, friends, and compatriots.

A stunning 2,000 year-old #Roman bowl made of translucent blue-green mosaic glass 🩵 Looks like it contains the cool turquoise blue waters of the Mediterranean Sea! 🌊 Landesmuseum Württemberg, Stuttgart 📷 by me #Archaeology

Anti-slavery coin from 1838. Coins like this were produced in support of abolition and, later, to commemorate the end of slavery #Juneteenth Excavations on São Tomé revealed the 16th century origins of the plantation system exported over the Atlantic. 🆓 doi.org/10.15184/aqy... 🏺 #Archaeology

#FootwearFriday for real! This pair (G2005.157a-b) dates to the 1730s based on the construction and fabric design. One can imagine them worn by a woman with very small feet, fastened with a pair of gleaming silver buckles. 🗃️🪡

Happy Friday! Here are some thoughts about Shakespeare. My newsletter is free, not on a Nazi-coddling platform, and comes out every two weeks, and I love my subscribers.

took my mom to see the quilt show

Finished going through every fashion plate labeled "Costume Parisien" to add it to the Journal des Dames et des Modes authority! And transcribed and translated the captions. hub.catalogit.app/genesee-coun... 🗃️🪡

For #WeddingWednesday, an 1819 wedding dress made of a fascinatingly woven figured muslin. From the shape, this would have likely been worn over an undergown with puffed sleeves to hold out these flounces. hub.catalogit.app/genesee-coun... 🗃️🪡

When utilized in literature review, LLMs consistently 1. fail to mention female authors in female-led literatures, 2. insist that men are more influential or more heavily cited when this is contradicted by objective citation counts, and 3. attribute women’s work to hallucinated male scholars.

I'm at a Lucy Darling show and it amuses me that in my work clothes I look like I'm trying to fit in with her vibe. This is just my vibe, people.

Translation Tuesday! Very simple one: "Hat of crepe. Gown of levantine trimmed with self-fabric flounces." From the Journal des Dames et des Modes, 1818. hub.catalogit.app/search/genes... 🗃️🪡

This has just a hint of the green dress from Atonement, a garment that seemed to capture the imagination of movie audiences so that it has lived long in the memory. This #1930s ensemble with matching jacket was designed by Alfred Lenief #goldsteinmuseum #FashionHistory 🗃️🪡

Simone Garcia Johnson supported me from the beginning

I was hoping to start patterning a cap today but HMMM where has my graph paper gone in the move

Moved several boxes of books into a tower that will block the view of the tv from the couch, which means that I have to put them away. 🧠

as soon as I find out that you use substack to host your newsletter, I'm going to stop sharing those posts.

For anyone contemplating a history research degree, or finishing one and pondering what to do next, Becoming a Historian by Penelope Corfield and @timhitchcock.bsky.social, published by @ihr.bsky.social in 2022, is an invaluable guide. I wish I’d kept Hugh Trevor-Roper’s short guide for comparison.

This week's very busy so I might not get to it until Saturday, but I will be patterning caps this week! Just for the GCVM costume shop's use, but I'm hoping to get the go-ahead to turn them into something the museum can sell.

Pretend it's #FootwearFriday, because I have a lovely treat. This lone slipper is all that remains of a pair that must have been worn to a splendid party or two in the 1860s, likely with a gown in a matching shade of pink. hub.catalogit.app/genesee-coun... 🗃️🪡

Hello sunshine! Two #1810s dresses although would you believe, the bright silk creation on the right is an underdress, designed to be worn beneath a pale muslin gown. I think I would prefer it on its own @jbrightcollection.bsky.social #FashionHistory 🗃️🪡

E. Lilian Todd #inventor In 1909 New York Times identified her as 1st woman in world to design airplanes. 1910 design was test-piloted by Didier Masson achieving powered hop of >6metres. Many other inventions incl cannon triggered by solar power. b. #OTD 12 June 1865 bit.ly/3KI7Dai

Check out the stunning cover for my fantasy novel THE LEAGUE OF LOST SOULS, designed by Katie Klimowicz! Out March 2027 with Tor in e, print and audio (reader tbc). Up for pre-order now!